[Bungleau]

I'll beg to differ with you on that one, Vaskez. On my work computer, which is on the same WLAN as my home computer, I have proposals, quotes, and software that I develop and sell. On my home computer, I have, among other things, my Quicken files and tax returns from the last ten or so years and the electronic copy of the technical book I wrote.

Now, while the book is valuable to me and certain folks who work in this subset of the technical world, that financial data can be priceless. There was an article in the paper last week about identity theft... how a guy here with a common name (James Clark, I think) has had many problems because someone stole his identity years ago and committed a few crimes in his name. It's been cleared up, but if you pull up *his* record in the law enforcement files, you get hit with it being used as an alias, which often stops people. He's been mistakenly arrested, spent nights in jail, lost out on jobs... there's real danger there.

On the other hand, if I wanted to put up a web site that couldn't be traced back to me, what better place to do it than on someone else's computer without their knowledge?

A buddy of mine helped drive the wireless protection issue home to one of his neighbors. He asked him to bring up a file on his computer, but the whole My Documents directory was gone. My buddy had accessed his WLAN, copied the contents over, and then erased it... just to hammer the point home.

A lot of the value depends on where you are in life, but think of what would happen if you lost *everything* in your computer overnight. What would you do? What would you want to do?

Just some thoughts...